Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Phil Edwards]

> On Thu, 29 May 2003, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> > Necessary when running configure because some /bin/sh shells have bugs
> > or disastrous corner-case performance problems.  Set CONFIG_SHELL in
> > your environment to your "good" shell prior to running configure/make.

Isn't setting SHELL also required?


On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:54:00PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> If we're recommending this, perhaps we can consider allowing POSIX shell
> features (e.g. shell functions, negation of pipelines) to be used.  (The
> POSIX shell standard was based on ksh, and any ksh or bash version likely
> to be in use should suffice for the features that are likely to be
> useful.)

We could say this, but there wouldn't be much point.  We use autoconf,
and autoconf doesn't make use of any "twentieth century shell" features
such as functions.


Phil

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